One-drop rule
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The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States asserting that any person with even one ancestor of sub-Saharan African ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro in historical terms), its implications of racial purity being that anyone unable to pass for white in the context of the US racial hierarchy is assigned the lower status of being non-white or colored.
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See also
- Black Indians
- Blood quantum laws
- Cherokee Freedmen
- Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Limpieza de sangre
- List of topics related to Black and African people
- Métis
- Mestizo
- Mischling
- Mixed Race Day
- Brown Paper Bag Test
- Pencil test
- Quadroon
- Racial hygiene
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